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The Ultimate Studio One Pro Book

By : Doruk Somunkiran
Book Image

The Ultimate Studio One Pro Book

By: Doruk Somunkiran

Overview of this book

The Ultimate Studio One Pro Book is a detailed, step-by-step guide to creating music with Studio One’s extensive set of production tools. This practical, goal-oriented resource will help musicians start producing their own music with Studio One and teach audio professionals how to include Studio One in their production workflow. The book begins by showing you how to set up Studio One to work smoothly on your system. The following chapters will walk you through the process of creating a project, along with recording audio and using virtual instruments to construct a MIDI arrangement. As you advance, you’ll find out how to edit your songs to perfection using Melodyne, Audio Bend, and an extensive collection of MIDI modifiers. You’ll also discover how to mix in Studio One with the effects plugins included in it, along with applying audio mastering in the Project window. Throughout this book, you’ll gain the skills needed to leverage Studio One confidently and effectively, as well as build your own unique music production workflow. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to effortlessly translate your musical ideas into complete songs using Studio One’s powerful tools.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with Studio One
5
Part 2: Creating in Studio One
9
Part 3: Editing in Studio One
14
Part 4:Mixing and Mastering

Configuring Studio One

When you launch Studio One, the software will take a moment to familiarize itself with its new home needs - it will analyze your computer’s hardware configuration, search for any friendly or unfriendly plugins you have installed (yes, it does have a blacklist!), phone home to PreSonus, sniff out the peripherals connected to your computer, and then greet you with the Start page:

Figure 2.3: Studio One’s Start page

Figure 2.3: Studio One’s Start page

Now, let’s start configuring Studio One.

Filling in the Artist Profile

Right in the middle of this page is the Artist Profile window. When you installed Studio One in the previous section, you logged in to your PreSonus account, so Studio One already knows who you are, and it will populate this section by pulling your photo, name, last name, and website link from your account info. If for some reason (e.g., a firewall) this section is still empty, go ahead and fill out the information manually...